11 years later, Bush's Iraq war crime legacy continues Iraqi bloodbath

A majority of Americans, like President Obama, want to look forward rather than backward from the monstrous criminal war George W. Bush unleased on Iraq eleven years ago Wednesday. However, every decent American should pause for just a moment to recognize the legacy of the nine year war President Obama mercifully ended December 31, 2011, in monumental failure. How so? It was a failure for the 4,488 US soldiers who died in a war that never should have been fought. It was a failure for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, US contractors and coalition soldiers who also died. It was a failure for the entire country of Iraq which is now a failed state hopelessly bogged down in the Sunni-Shite sectarian war Bush's criminality unleashed. While affluent Americans fret about what new toy to buy and poor Americans fret about where their next meal is coming from, here is what happened in Iraq yesterday:

In Qaim, one policeman was killed and two others were wounded in a roadside bombing.

Four militants were killed in Falluja.

Clashes continue in Ramadi, where six policemen were shot dead. Four militants were killed.

A suicide bomber was killed in Haditha, but the number of victims was not reported.

In Baghdad, a blast on a commercial street in Amin killed four and wounded 13 more. In Qahira, a bomb killed three people and wounded six more at a falafel restaurant.

Four people were killed and 14 more were wounded on a commercial street in Amil.

Four people were killed and 10 were wounded in a Shoala/Hurriya area blast. Security forces also killed a militant. Two snipers were killed

In Sadr City, a bombing left one dead and six wounded.

A car bombing in downtown Tikrit left seven dead and 5 wounded.

President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rich have not only been given a "Stay Out of Jail Card" from President Obama, they have made millions from their self-serving memoirs, speaking engagements, and fat government pensions. But just as some 95 year old ex Nazi war criminal still awaits the knock at the door, the Statute of Limitations for Iraq war crimes will never run out on this criminal foursome. None of them can travel outside the US for fear of arrest by countries who take the Geneva Conventions infinitely more seriously than America.

On the eleventh anniversary of the Iraq war, these four need to be moved up from the back burner of forgotten justice to the criminal war crime frying pan.